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Austerity

Austerity Is Crap
Since the peak of the Great Society, on the first official Earth Day, captains of industry have engaged in a conspiracy to destroy the gains made for working people …

Of Budgets, Values and Visions
In America today, three visions rooted in different views about human nature and society offer distinct slants on budget priorities: the conservative, the liberal and the progressive.

Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia: The Case of Greece
What's happening now in Greece can be best described as the “downsizing of a country” that brings profound changes in its social and economic fabric.

Robert Pollin: Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget Strikes Back Against Austerity
The Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget would increase spending on education, healthcare and the green economy while rolling back cuts against social services.

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Billionaires… First They Came for the Economy
It's time to end America's oligonomy by rolling back the Reagan tax cuts and enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust act, so that corporations can't grow out-of-control and amass endless piles …

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The Culling of the American Herd
A Harvard/CUNY report that predicted as many as 17,000 Americans may die as a result of some states refusing to expand their Medicaid programs under Obamacare has received little …

What’s Really Behind Education Policy in Newark?
Is a move toward privatization behind the turning over of Newark, New Jersey, public school buildings to charter school companies, investigators are asking.

A Post-Austerity Agenda
Robert Pollin proposes a post-austerity policy agenda that lays out a clear path to job creation and lowering public debt - while advancing greater equality.

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Modeling the Education They Want To Be: The Great Chicago Teachers Union Transformation
Micah Uetricht's ‘Strike for America: Chicago Teachers Against Austerity’ relates the stirring transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a democratically organized force for social justice.

Without any Grassroots, This Austerity Group Withered: The American People Know a Fake When They See It.
The austerity mania that plagued our political system for four years is finally subsiding.